The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-13
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

bT6LCHNllle-An
liceman Has Desperate Encounter
With Two Negroes-President Cleve.
lands Letter Declining Macon's Invi'
tation to Attend the Fair.
GEORGIA.
Talbot county Superior Court convened
at Talbotton yesterday.
Milledgevllle consumes about 1000 besves
"a year All these hides will be tanned at A.
l. Allison & Co. S new lanyard
The Georgia Ore Company, of Tallapoosa,
failed to pay off last Saturday The laborers
took out liens on the tools, scales, etc.
The handsome public school building at
West Point was turned over to the school
board Saturday, and opened under most
f1attering auspices Monday.
Rev. C. H. Stillwell died Friday night
about o'clock, at his home one mile west of
Rome in his Slst year. For several years by
reason of old age he has been laid aside from
the active duties of life.
w L. Stanley, at the asylum, at Milledge-
vile, has accomplished the remarkable feat
of making 796 pones of bread in Sc minutes
He makes ,244 biscuits day, and it takes
him only As minutes to make them and bake
them.
News has reached Cuthbert of the failure
of T. j. Smith at Fort Gaines He was
closed under mortgage of $1,000, Ross
Sutlive being the mortgagee. The assets
are about $4,000; liabilities supposed to be
about "a, 200
West Points first failure was announced
Saturday, greatly TO the surprise of many.
Jacob Friesleben made an assignment of his
stock of dry goods and millinery. Mr..
Herzberg is the assignee. The nominal
assets are $4,000 and liabilities $4,000.
Official information was received at the
executive office Saturday of the election of
Hon Silas Tygart as Ordinary of Berrien
county. The Governor ordered the new Or
binary to be commissioned at once, in order
that he might Immediately enter upon the
discharge of his duties
The Adiutant General has ordered an cleo
tion for the Captaincy of the Griffin Light
Guards. 1t will be remembered that Wood,
the former Captain, fed the State because
of nefarious practices, and by request of his
command the office was declared vacant.
THE election will take place at the expira-
tion of the five days notice.
Saturday DIR. S. N Jordan amputated
one of the fingers on the right hand of little
Julius Parker, aged about years. son of
mr.. Parker, who works on B. A. Big
Egers' plantation in Harris county. The
little fellow and a playmate were playing
with an ak. when the former had one Of
necessary to amputate it,
Handy Wallace. negro boy, just about
grown, living in East Dougherty, on the old
Pike Hill place, was bitten by some venom
Gus snake, supposed to have been a RATHER,
about two weeks ago. He did nothing spe-
cially for it, and the poison took effect, pro
ducing modification, and he went to
ALBANY to consult DR.. w. W. Bacon. The
doctor amputated the great toe on the left
e
Boarding students at the college at Mil
ledgeville will be required to I've in a
building owned by the institution hereafter.
1t is thought parents will soon recognize the
benefit of having their boys under rigid
discipline, and at their rooms at night learn
ling something that will be of benefit to
them, instead of running about town, going
jim bad company, and contracting evil
habits. The barracks will be a practical
benefit to the student.
] The laughable analogy of the amusing in
cident OF percussion and auscultation related
of the old woman by Secretary Bayard in
his speech to the doctors at Washington,
happened in Albany on the morning of the
departure of the survivors of the Fourth
Georgia. Nearly everybody in the city
was walked up by the firing of the cannon,
which sounded as if some one was thump-
ing at the door. Some arose and went TO
LQt upOT 10 S6e WHO
The warehousemen of Albany desire to
be placed on record as having used their
best endeavors to secure a supply of ties for
their farmer patrons They explain that
there are no ties manufactured in this
country, and that two ships with cargoes of
ties, that left England for this country,
were disabled, and had to put back for
Liverpool. This unexpected misfortune
run the supply so low that it was impossible
TO procure them. One firm spent $25 in
wiring for ties.
The Rome Courier has received letter
from d. K. Collins, of Charleston, N, C..
who was captured by the Federals during
the late war, at Cedar Greek, iii the Valley
of Virginia, ON Nov. 10, 1854, late in the
evening, inquiring after Samuel Vardiman,
of Crenshaws OF Wharton's division, cap
tured soon afterward, and with whom he
shared his blanket until he Collins made
his escape and returned to his command.
Nir. Collins says Vardiman was from Rome
or vicinity, and desires very much to hear
from him.
One of the most singular occurrences
ever known in Dougherty county came to
light Friday Silas johnson, who farms in
East Dougherty on the Chastain place, put
bagging in the screw box of the cotton
press preparatory to packing bale of cot
ton, and while he went for the loose cotton
an old hen, which had been laying in the
box, got into it, it is supposed, TO lay. Silas
came with his cotton and piled it on her,
and packed the bale without discovering the
accident until after it was rolled out. He
brought 1t in to the warehouse and it was
weighed, hen and all The fiattened frame
of the compressed chicken was cut out, and
the bale sold
ID. K. Butler, of Camilla, had his gin
house, the machinery belonging to il, and
thirteen or fourteen bales of seed cotton,
with quantity of cotton seed and other
valuables, destroyed Friday night about II
O'Clock by fire. The origin is unknown,
and it cannot be easily accounted for but MS
the work of an incendiary. Mr.. Butler was
having some repairs done to his machinery
and had not had any fire about the house or
machinery for day or two. Some four or
five of the bales of seed cotton belonged TO
Mr.. Butler and about as many TO his
tenants, one TO Rev Mr.. Hoggard, and the
rest to others. The loss is "a 900 or IS, 900,
with insurance enough to cover one half or
two-thirds, possibly.
At Macon Saturday a well dressed
stranger went into the Central Georgia
Bank and asked Mr.. Stone to give him
$40 bill for two ives. This was little un-
usual, Mr.. Stone thought, and the stranger
Immediately asked change for another five.
Right behind him came another stranger,
who wanted gold for s. bill, and then Mr..
Stone became suddenly impressed with the